The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-30
ADULTgRlTIOH or FOODS.
CHEMISTS DISCOVER SOME
STARTLING FACTS
About Eatables-A Series Of Analyses
Just Finished and Published
Show That
PURE AND WHOLESOME FOOD
AnDDRINK ARE EXCEPTIONS
In New YOrk-Where the Greatest
Dangers are Encountered and
Hardest to Prevent.
ESPECIAL TO rHE APpEAL.I

ESPECIAL To THE APPEAL.t
HRw YoRE, June 29.-There Is an
interesting race going on as TO who
shall discuss tbs largest number and
variety OF authorizations in foods az d
drinks. Thus far DR.. Losing, of the
American Andlyist. leadH, with DIR.
Love, OF the New York World, a close
second. Behind these are DIR. Batter.
shall, OF the United States laboratory
Prof. Doremus, DIR. Chandler OF Colun .
bia College, DR.. Flancis Wyatt OF the
Mercantile Exchange, Prof. Waller
and DR.. Edison of the Board OF Health.
The discoveries made by these emil
nent authorities are not reRssuriDg to
those who desire to eat pure and
wholesome food. There appears to
be no limit to American ingenuity in
utilizing every scientific idea in this
regard. One factory, whose p oprie-
tor is an ex-chemist's assistant, takes
sawdust, dirty or clean, dries ii aud
dlstills IL in the moot approved style.
The resulting wood vinegar is puri-
fed, colored, favored and sweetened,
end, according to the treatment fol.
lowed, becomes white or red vinegar,
pure cider vinegar, ruseert pear or
champagne cider.
DR.. Love made canvass of the
New York saloons and is still anal
yzng "the hardware" he purchased in
the gilded gin palaces as well az In the
lowest dens. Some had whis kies he
finds to be pure, beer made palstsDle
by the addition Of enough sugar and
Rlycerine to DO practically q fair New
Orlesns moa.ses. A few ryes and
bourbons are rich enough In tsnnin
aud copper to convert the stomach
into calf skin and turn it a pale pea
green in the operation. Gin is mixed
with water and improved with alum,
sugar OF lead, oil Of vitrlol and other
equally appetizing poisons. Nearly
all the brandies are WHISTLES doctored
at home and abroad and then naked
with the California article to give
them body and bouquet.
DR.. EdsJn unearthed shrewd indi-
vidusl named Bosrsen in Front street,
whose vineyard is the top loft Of Gel.
lar oil an old warehouse, and whose
grapes are ancient raisins, depraved
currants and other fruits. These he
ferments into pure home made wine,"
which can be labeled land probably
was and ie) sherry, medeira and NAL
aga, to suit the taste OF the purchaser
or the consumer. The stuff would
turn sour in no time, but Boaraen for.
titles 1t with alcohol and salcylic, and
when, Of course, 1t will stand any eli
mate, a large amount of Il is sent to
sections and other church officials for
communion purposes. DR.. Lassing
finds that two-thirds Of the cider used
is bogus, that not one drop of pure
cider has yet been discovered that
came from the fruit. The exquisite
bartlett and seckel is given to some
airated water by adding compound
that 10 extracted from rancid butter
and spoiled cheese.
Thrift of the higheat kind IL dis
played by q manufacturer who buys
up bad veal and skunk veal, and by
artistic canning and packing, converts
1t into corn fed spring chicken. A
goodly portion 10 canned or made into
chicken salad for the German trade,
and sold to the cheap caterers aud low
Craze restaurants, with which New
York is flooded. When the genuine
article costs at least is cents to pre.
pare, there must De much imitation
Of this class when al alleged chicken
salad can be bought for from 10 to Is
cents per plate.
Thr . "butter repair shops" are d g.
covenes by the american Analyst and
the New York San, one of which is a
huge establishment on the Erie 70 d,
not far from the Delaware, The
spoiled, musty and rancid butter of
the market is bought at ridlculously
low rates, transported 10 the ship, and
there washed, bleached, deodoriz ID,
enriched with olive oil, recolored and
again sent back to Washington and
Fulton markets as gilt edged dairy |
butter. AS the expenee of treatment |
is not more than 2 cents pound, and
the difference between the rancid and
the fresh article is seldom less than 10
cents, q handsome profit inures to the
clever "butter cobbler."
Ia spices and condiments, DR.. Bat.
te.she!l reports en- smorn. 0. sdultsrs-
ton that Is perfectly appalling. OF |
over 100 brands Of mustard In the
only three are pure, and these |
are comparatively unpopular or un.
known. TIE rest, and especially the |
great English brands, are largely |
starch, favored with spices and col |
ored With turmeric and othes dyes. It |
is 30 bad that the learned chemist
says that the American public no
longer knows the taste Of real mus |
tard, and II the pure article were sup
piled 1t would turn away In disgust.
Cinnamon ie made from ground up |
cedar wood, cigar boxee, cocoanut
shells, sswdust and the like; pepper,
from the economic cocoanut shell and |
from "powTette," q powder that is
in large quantities from
France, Spain and Italy, and is sup.
posed to consist Of ground olive stones
and the bark Of the almond and olive
tree.
DR.. Chandler adds an interesting
chapter by reporting that the admit, r.
ator Is continually troubled by the
difficulty In obtaining unauthorized
goods with which to sdulterate his
wares, The mustard maker wants
pure tumeIic, but the tumerio maker
puts nsptha yellow into his goods,
and to cap the climax the naphthaline
chemist saves an honest penny" by
using picrio acid end other objection
able substances in his output.
Milk is not half so black as il lie
painted. 1t is skinned q little to
prevent its being too rich and cloyinV
he stomach of childhood, and 1t is &C.
watered 10 considerable ex.
,ent, hut the severe laws ON the SUB
ect, and their more severe enforce.
nent, have taught the dsirymen and
.he milkmen good lesson. As a re-
lult, the mix sold in the great mStrop.
Ills aver ayes well, and ia almost every
where good aad wholesome.
The last use Of the cleo oil is rs the
basis OF ice cream, According 10 the
iiscoverer of the happy idea, it makes